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. >> mohammed mahmoud streak runs down from the frontline since saturday. the fight has been led by organized football fans with long experience of taking on the police. the gas keeps them back from the interior ministry, which is a symbol of the old regime. life has not offered any favors. the gas slows them but does not stop them, because our rage against the system they believe would benefit others. good >> we are here, and they show no desire to leave. i cannot see a political deal that will get them out of here. >> he said these are wounds from police shotguns and was proud of them. everyone with an empty gas can points out they were made in america out. here on the streets, some of the young, poor, and angry increasingly see western allies as enemies. one man threatened, if anyone films on my territory, i will kill. just off mohammad mahmoud street, a man was clearing his warehouse. a disturbance means more demand for an economy battered by revolutionary turmoil. they carried out some of this through teargas. many egyptians long for a quiet and uncert
. >> mohammed mahmoud streak runs down from the frontline since saturday. the fight has been led by organized football fans with long experience of taking on the police. the gas keeps them back from the interior ministry, which is a symbol of the old regime. life has not offered any favors. the gas slows them but does not stop them, because our rage against the system they believe would benefit others. good >> we are here, and they show no desire to leave. i cannot see a political...
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>> this was a major moment for mohamed mursi. there were a lot of doubts about how he would lead egypt? whether he would maintain the peace agreement with israel. he can be, based on this performance, i think an important partner for the united states. >> suarez: ambassador burns, hisham melhem, good to talk to you both. >> thank you upon >> brown: and now to the conflict in syria. nato said today that it would consider a turkish request to deploy patriot missiles to protect itself from syrian attacks. turkey and syria share a 560 mile border and after syrian mortar rounds landed in turkish territory, concerns have risen that the civil war fighting could spread further. in margaret warner's latest report, she examines the spill-over that's already happening. >> reporter: nestled up against the border with syria, ceylanpinar, turkey has an all- too-up-close view of the civil war next door, as fighting rages in its syrian twin city of ras- al-ain. for days last week on the syrian side, president bashar al assad's forces fought rebe
>> this was a major moment for mohamed mursi. there were a lot of doubts about how he would lead egypt? whether he would maintain the peace agreement with israel. he can be, based on this performance, i think an important partner for the united states. >> suarez: ambassador burns, hisham melhem, good to talk to you both. >> thank you upon >> brown: and now to the conflict in syria. nato said today that it would consider a turkish request to deploy patriot missiles to...
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and protesters clashed in cairo's tahrir square and elsewhere in egypt today, sparked when president mohamed morsi granted himself broad new powers. good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, we have the latest on the widespread demonstrations, and assess what's behind the egyptian leader's moves. >> brown: then, the death toll in syria's 20-month war has climbed past 40,000, according to a human rights group. we get an update from margaret warner, reporting from the turkish border. >> suarez: we continue our conversations with newly-elected senators. judy woodruff talks with virginia democrat tim kaine. >> i intend to hit the ground on january 3 very much running. > running. we can make progress quickly if we listen to each other and find those points of common ground they think do exist. >> brown: mark shields and david brooks analyze the weeks news. >> suarez: spencer michels has the story of a growing crackdown on dissidents and journalists in iran. >> brown: and we close with poet jennifer fitzgerald on hurricane sandy's destructive path thr
and protesters clashed in cairo's tahrir square and elsewhere in egypt today, sparked when president mohamed morsi granted himself broad new powers. good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, we have the latest on the widespread demonstrations, and assess what's behind the egyptian leader's moves. >> brown: then, the death toll in syria's 20-month war has climbed past 40,000, according to a human rights group. we get an update from...
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even here, one inmate did not hide his defiance and signed his name muhammed and alamein -- mohammed bin al amin. but this prisoner is scared because he is from a place where the colonel is from. >> i thought that my life was cut when they took me. the guards told us that our existence meant nothing. i felt that i could be killed at any time. >> someone has been trying to destroy the evidence of what happened here. the ashes in this room are still hot. these libyan lawyers are removing the less -- the rest of the archives while they still can. they may be produced in court if colonel gaddafi and his associates ever face trial. >> thousands have lost loved ones in this place and in many other places. it is important that families know all the facts about what happened to them. >> 42 years of frightened faces are stored in fruit boxes. pictures of some prisoners children, too, taken from letters from their families. the lawyers think they founded a mission from 1200 prisoners who were killed here in a massacre in 1996. >> he died in 1996. >> and your father knew him? >> my father knew
even here, one inmate did not hide his defiance and signed his name muhammed and alamein -- mohammed bin al amin. but this prisoner is scared because he is from a place where the colonel is from. >> i thought that my life was cut when they took me. the guards told us that our existence meant nothing. i felt that i could be killed at any time. >> someone has been trying to destroy the evidence of what happened here. the ashes in this room are still hot. these libyan lawyers are...
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his name is mohammed abrimi. he was seen two days prior to the paris attacks on camera in a gas station with the key suspect of this manhunt originally, a man called salah abdeslam. so, two men now being hunted by the belgian authorities. and the reminder of just why the security alert level in this country remains at the highest level. now, despite that, the other development is the lockdown measures that have been in place for the last four days eased today. we saw schools reopening, literally with a great deal of police presence, but we also saw the subways opening, around 50% of them actually by midday today were open. we went down there and talked to travelers just to get a sense of whether or not they were still fearful, whether they were just glad to get back to work, or whether or not they felt that the authorities overreacted to the risks here. listen in flp was some mixed opinions. >> i'm feeling okay. yesterday i went to my work, but today i decided to take the metro because i think it's okay. >> i thi
his name is mohammed abrimi. he was seen two days prior to the paris attacks on camera in a gas station with the key suspect of this manhunt originally, a man called salah abdeslam. so, two men now being hunted by the belgian authorities. and the reminder of just why the security alert level in this country remains at the highest level. now, despite that, the other development is the lockdown measures that have been in place for the last four days eased today. we saw schools reopening,...
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. >> france has been on edge since mohammed mira shot dead seven people last month. with this case there's no suggestion of a racial or religious factor. zoe conway, bbc news. >> this is bbc news. still ahead -- why america still doesn't have a national memorial to commemorate world war i. senior m.p.'s are calling for a wider investigation into allegations of racism in the metropolitan police. 18 officers and civilian member of staff are under investigation. in total, 10 separate incidents of alleged racism are being looked into by the independent police complaints commission. a man and woman arrested on suspicion of murdering a 6-year-old girl at a campsite in hamp shire have been released without charge. police say the results of a post mortem examination suggests there was not suspicion. police in northern ireland say they recovered a bomb containing a significant amount of explosives. the device was left on a grass berth close to the a-1 between belfast and dublin. the chancellor says he would be very happy for the british government to consider publishing the p
. >> france has been on edge since mohammed mira shot dead seven people last month. with this case there's no suggestion of a racial or religious factor. zoe conway, bbc news. >> this is bbc news. still ahead -- why america still doesn't have a national memorial to commemorate world war i. senior m.p.'s are calling for a wider investigation into allegations of racism in the metropolitan police. 18 officers and civilian member of staff are under investigation. in total, 10 separate...
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. >> ifill: protests surrounding egyptian president mohammed morsi's recent power grab and a hastily drafted constitution turned violent again today. jeffrey brown reports. >> brown: police outside the presidential palace in cairo retreated this evening after a crowd broke through their lines. officers fired back with tear gas but eventually a loud... allowed protestors to make their way to the palace gates. some threw stones toward the billing. security officials said president mohammed morsi left the palace as the demonstrations grew larger, reportedly to more than 100,000. it has become commonplace in the last few weeks. they follow morsi's recent decree that expands his powers and hastily drafted constitution put together by an islamist dominated committee. >> we won't be able to speak. there won't be a court that we can go talk to. he has made himself a force and he said it is a rather force. this is something we cannot believe. we've been 0 years being betrayed. we won't believe morsi. he will remain seated in the chair and not leave it. >> brown: on another front several of eg
. >> ifill: protests surrounding egyptian president mohammed morsi's recent power grab and a hastily drafted constitution turned violent again today. jeffrey brown reports. >> brown: police outside the presidential palace in cairo retreated this evening after a crowd broke through their lines. officers fired back with tear gas but eventually a loud... allowed protestors to make their way to the palace gates. some threw stones toward the billing. security officials said president...
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and mohammed ali said his... he struck something when he was digging underground. and curious, he kept digging, and he was startled to find a six-foot jar, sealed, and next to it was buried a corpse. mohammed ali said he hesitated to break the jar because he thought there might be a jinn in it. but hope overcame fear. he said he picked up his mattock and smashed the jar and saw particles of gold fly out of it, much to his delight. but a moment later, he realized it was only pieces of... fragments of papyrus. inside the jar were 13 volumes bound in tooled gazelle leather. >> narrator: what mohammed ali had discovered were books written in the ancient egyptian language known as coptic. unable to read them, ali took them home. >> later, his mother said that she took some of them and threw them into the fire for kindling when she was baking bread. what he didn't know until... what we didn't know until much later is that these contained some of the most precious texts of the 20th century, that they have uncovered for us a whole new way of seeing the early christian worl
and mohammed ali said his... he struck something when he was digging underground. and curious, he kept digging, and he was startled to find a six-foot jar, sealed, and next to it was buried a corpse. mohammed ali said he hesitated to break the jar because he thought there might be a jinn in it. but hope overcame fear. he said he picked up his mattock and smashed the jar and saw particles of gold fly out of it, much to his delight. but a moment later, he realized it was only pieces of......
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>> mohamed. islam is the most powerful force in the world today. >> i give a positive today to the arab youth protesters, but the occupy wall street crowd which has really changedle the political agenda and put the concerns of the 99% on the national scene. >> rich? >> the navy seals who dispatched osama bin laden with lethal efficiency and did us all proud. >> i will give it to newt gingrich, john, if that surprises you. he went from loser to winner most effectively this year. i am not going to say what happens next year. >> thank you very much. the envelope. what am i doing? >> let's hear it from jay carson. >> johnny carson. remember him? the biggest winner of 2011 as pointed out the arabs. 2011 was the year when arab street rose unpassed from tunisia to egypt, from yemen to libya. the arab street brought to life the arab spring. so the arab street, the biggest winner of 2011. okay. biggest loser, pat? >> penn state and joe paterno, sadly. >> republican brand. presidents vulnerable that can't
>> mohamed. islam is the most powerful force in the world today. >> i give a positive today to the arab youth protesters, but the occupy wall street crowd which has really changedle the political agenda and put the concerns of the 99% on the national scene. >> rich? >> the navy seals who dispatched osama bin laden with lethal efficiency and did us all proud. >> i will give it to newt gingrich, john, if that surprises you. he went from loser to winner most...
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. >> we support mohamed morsi's correct decision and eventually the good from the bad will be distinguishable. we support dr. morsi. >> u.s. officials raised concerns about morsi's decree. today the state department's victoria newlyand called for calm. >> what is important to us is that these issues be slelgted through dialogues, that these issues be selgtzed democraticry. we are encouraged that the various important stakeholders in egypt are now talking to each other, that president morsi is consulting on the way forward but we're not going to prejudge where that will go. >> the domestic unrest has more than shadowed morsi's role in the cease-fire between israel and hamas. concern was growing about more trouble in cairo tomorrow. this afternoon, the muzz lum brotherhood spokesman said the party had postponed demonstrations tuesday to avoid bloodshed. >> brown: a short while ago i spoke with nancy youssef. nan nancy youssef, let's begin with the latest statements from president morsi's spokesman. it's hard to know whether the president is backing off or simply clarifying the pronouncements he
. >> we support mohamed morsi's correct decision and eventually the good from the bad will be distinguishable. we support dr. morsi. >> u.s. officials raised concerns about morsi's decree. today the state department's victoria newlyand called for calm. >> what is important to us is that these issues be slelgted through dialogues, that these issues be selgtzed democraticry. we are encouraged that the various important stakeholders in egypt are now talking to each other, that...
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later, the new, islamist president of egypt mohammed morsi also took on israel, over the plight of the palestinians. >> ( translated ): it is shameful that the free world would accept that a party in the international community may continue to deny the rights of a nation that looks to independence over decades, no matter what justification. it is also shameful that settlements continue on the territory of these people, the palestinian people. >> sreenivasan: morsi also said he won't rest until the civil war in syria comes to an end. and, he condemned the violence in muslim countries sparked by an anti-islamic video. but he argued that freedom of speech should not include freedom to insult religions. the u.s. army will stage a one- day stand down from normal duties tomorrow to focus on suicide prevention. through july, there had been 116 suicides among active-duty soldiers. that's up substantially from last year. the stand-down will not involve other branches of the military, and it will not apply to soldiers involved in combat operations or medical duties. nearly one in five u.s. house
later, the new, islamist president of egypt mohammed morsi also took on israel, over the plight of the palestinians. >> ( translated ): it is shameful that the free world would accept that a party in the international community may continue to deny the rights of a nation that looks to independence over decades, no matter what justification. it is also shameful that settlements continue on the territory of these people, the palestinian people. >> sreenivasan: morsi also said he won't...
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. >> reporter: at the family market in working-class richmond, california, owner mohammed elzofri is deeply concerned about a new city council backed measure which would place a penny-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweeteneed beverages. the controversial plan-- designed to cut consumption of sugar-- goes before voters in november. elzofri says about 80% of his customers buy some kind of sugary drink and the tax, he says, would add about 68 cents to a popular two liter drink. >> this will just hurt the poor people and hurt these business owners like myself. if people that want to drink sodas, they drink. i mean, everybody everywhere is going to you know, gain some weight. >> reporter: in fact the rising rates of diabetes and other weight related illnesses are at the heart of the debate now raging in richmond over the proposed tax. >> we have a big problem with childhood obesity in richmond as you probably know and it's a health disparity issue for us. fully a third of our latino fifth and seventh graders, and a third of our african american fifth and seventh graders are obese. >> reporter: ci
. >> reporter: at the family market in working-class richmond, california, owner mohammed elzofri is deeply concerned about a new city council backed measure which would place a penny-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweeteneed beverages. the controversial plan-- designed to cut consumption of sugar-- goes before voters in november. elzofri says about 80% of his customers buy some kind of sugary drink and the tax, he says, would add about 68 cents to a popular two liter drink. >> this will...
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it's being mediated by the egyptians by mohammed morsi and members of his cabinet. it's the first time he's had to negotiate something on this scale since winning the presidency in june. there's an israeli delegation here as well. the negotiations have been happening for a few days now. today we're hearing from people privately that there doesn't seem to be a particular sticking point but that both sides are... that's really being lost is the time that's having to happen between shuttling between two sides that won't face each other in the same room. remember though it's in everybody's interest to keep promising that this cease-fire agreement will come soon because of potential instability. if there isn't a promise of some sort of settlement to this, i think there's universal agreement that the worst case scenario is escalation. >> woodruff: nancy, what are the israelis asking for? >> i think very simply they're asking for hamas to stop launching rockets towards them. remember, this time it was significant in that a rocket reached the city of tel aviv which is a fir
it's being mediated by the egyptians by mohammed morsi and members of his cabinet. it's the first time he's had to negotiate something on this scale since winning the presidency in june. there's an israeli delegation here as well. the negotiations have been happening for a few days now. today we're hearing from people privately that there doesn't seem to be a particular sticking point but that both sides are... that's really being lost is the time that's having to happen between shuttling...